Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- Achsah : what price this prize? / Lillian R. Klein -- 'I will sing a new song to my God' : some remarks on the intertextuality of Judith 16:1-17 / Claudia Rakel -- The story of Jephthah's daughter in the Midrash / Shulamit Valler -- Jephtah's daughter : a thematic approach to the narrative as seen in selected rabbinic exegesis and in artwork / Phyllis Silverman Kramer -- Delilah : a suitable case for (feminist) treatment? / Carol Smith -- God of love/God of vengeance, or Samson's 'Prayer for vengeance' / Renate Jost -- Lethal differences : sexual violence as violence against others in Judges 19 / Ilse Müllner -- Rereading the body politic : women, violence and Judges 21 / Alice Bach.